Joel and Ethan Coen do a fine job of making us feel the experience of a fictional Greenwich Village folk singer in their new film Inside Llewyn Davis. We feel sorry for this poor schlub who can barely score a bed […]
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“Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow.” The image from 1985 shows John Mellencamp’s knack for literary horror, 15 years before he began writing a musical with iconic horror writer Stephen King. The song about a dying Heartland farm […]
I interviewed Bill Monroe — born 102 years ago today — between his sets at Summerfest in 1981 for The Milwaukee Journal. He is credited for inventing bluegrass in 1939 when his Bluegrass Boys auditioned at the Grand Old Opry and caused a high, lonesome stir […]
Today it is common to look back on one artist whose album or song has had a profound impact on both our lives and musical history. The prolific music scholar and critic Greil Marcus wrote an entire book solely about […]
Finally, a Christmas album that is thoroughly inventive yet unabashedly honors the birth of Christ with sincerity in spirit and musical grace. Rosemary Phelan’s lovingly haunting vocals conspire with Emilyn Stam’s unpredictably gifted piano to offer a surprise with every […]
There may be many reasons for the release of Mickey Newbury’s An American Trilogy Box Set and I’m sure all of them will be valid. Finding the master tapes in the Electra Records vaults is a good start, but I’m […]
What Sings in the Blood might be a call to arms for the inner soul. It is a major breakthrough for this artist with strong content, perfectly paced, with many nuggets embedded deep within its songs. Like a timed-release capsule, […]
Raven Kristina Stykos with Phillip Aaberg Sweetgrass Music – 12-15- 2010 It’s not often that the poetry of words can be so well matched with its counterpart in sound and no one does this better than […]
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